Facebook Issues Mystery Press Invitation

Facebook has issued an invitation to the press for an event next week at its Menlo Park campus.

This press conference could be held for any number of reasons — it could be some kind of new product launch or a redesign of a popular component of Facebook. But one possibility worth noting is that of the mysterious Facebook Phone.

A Facebook-backed device would likely run a modified version of Google 's Android mobile operating system, according to those same reports.

Zuckerberg said building Facebook’s own mobile phone is “so clearly the wrong strategy for us” during a keynote conversation in September last year. Another possibility Zuckerberg has alluded to is a more robust search product – a service that already receives a billion queries per day, mostly for people looking for friends, he said.